Ocean Floor Profile Graph

Turn the graph paper sideways so the longest edge of your paper is parallel to the longest edge of the.

Ocean floor profile graph. Again as noted in yesterday s lesson they key reason that this lesson is actually designed to be taught over two days is because of the extensive time that students need to actually graph the sea floor profile and then begin the post graph analysis. The teacher will pass out the plotting the ocean floor handout see attached file 3. Wealth of data on the depth of the ocean floor which is in the table on the next page. To make your profile you will use a table of data that was collected by a depth sounding.

Set up your graph paper. Good luck and may the seas be kind to you. The students will plot the given data on a graph attached file 4. The ship is equipped with high tech depth sounding equipment.

You are charting a line from cape cod massachusetts on the north american. Ocean floor profile map instructions in this activity you will construct a profile or side view of the features of the ocean floor between new jersey and portugal. Be careful when interpreting this diagram and others like it because in order to show the various features clearly the vertical axis is exaggerated in this case by about 200 times. For this set of data the depth has already been calculated for you.

The numbers in the longitude column give the ship s location at 19 points in the atlantic ocean. A topographic profile of the pacific ocean floor between japan and british columbia is shown in figure 18 3. Set up your graph on the first page of graph paper only according. Mapping the ocean floor now that you have all of your data you will plot these depths on a graph.

Now you will use that data to create a graph and profile of the ocean bottom. This graphic shows several ocean floor features on a scale from 0 35 000 feet below sea level. Plot each data point listed on the table. Smoothly connect the points and you will have a cross sectional map of the south atlantic ocean floor.

Introduce the geography of the ocean basins by going to the world ocean floor on the internet. Continental slope part 3. Set up your graph with depth meters on the y axis and distance east of nj km on the x axis. Each station was along the 39 north latitude from new jersey to portugal.

Once the points are plotted connect the points and shade in the profile of the ocean floor. The following features are shown at example depths to scale though each feature has a considerable range at which it may occur. Label the following ocean floor features on your graph. Use page 48 and 49 as a reference.

Once students have the hang of it this should have been gone over yesterday although individual students might need some help as you. Browse and click the map for selected close ups and commentary. Continental shelf 300 feet continental slope 300 10 000 feet abyssal plain 10 000 feet abyssal hill 3 000 feet up from the abyssal plain seamount 6 000 feet. Ocean floor profile the information for this graph was collected at 29 oceanographic locations in the atlantic ocean.

The pacific profile shows.